Rocket Lab, a young aerospace company specializing in sending small payloads, will attempt to recover the first stage of its Electron rocket for the first time in a few days thanks with parachutes. For several years, SpaceX has been revolutionizing the aerospace market by considerably lowering the

SpaceX plans to launch the first operational flight of its Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station on November 14, 2020. The crew will consist of three American astronauts and a Japanese astronaut. On May 30, SpaceX took another step by propelling astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurl

Europe is home to an underground ocean covered in a thick icy shell. We also know that plumes of water sometimes shoot up from the surface. On the other hand, it is still not known if this activity comes from water reservoirs near the surface or if it comes from this deep buried ocean. A study has l

Experiments on board the ISS reveal that we could extract rare earths in microgravity using bacteria. This condition will be essential if we want to establish ourselves permanently in space. Details of the study are published in Nature Communications. Mining payloads from Earths gravity is extreme

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a huge burst of gamma rays released more energy in half a second than the Sun wont produce any all his life. According to researchers, we may have witnessed the birth of a magnetar from the merger of two neutron stars. If this is indeed the case, it would

Engineers of the famous US radio telescope are currently facing many problems threatening its entire structure. While a repair mission was planned, a new incident unfortunately occurred. Officials are therefore beginning to worry about this situation but are continuing their efforts. An urgent situ

Hope, the first Mars mission from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), will reach the red planet on February 9, 2021, government officials said on Sunday. The probe, placed in a high elliptical orbit, will aim to focus on studying its atmosphere. Every 26 months or so, when Earth and Mars are aligned fa

The European Space Agency (ESA) has just awarded a contract to the British company Metalysis with the aim of developing technology capable of extracting oxygen directly from Moon dust (regolith). As you probably know, the United States plans to return astronauts to the Moon as early as 2024 as part

China is preparing to launch one of its most ambitious missions, aiming to bring at least two kilos of moon rock back to Earth. The big day is scheduled for next week. China has made incredible progress in space in recent years. More recently, the Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA) distinguished

The Lunar Loo Challenge is a competition in which competitors design toilets for use on the surface of the Moon. Indeed, space toilets can only be used in microgravity. A young 9-year-old Malaysian distinguished himself with his surprising concept. Toilet Race! In recent months, the United States S

Astronomers recently looked at how the average gas temperature of the universe has changed over the past ten billion years. It shows that it increased considerably during this period. Today it is approaching two million degrees Celsius. Watching the sky is a bit like time travel. Indeed, assuming t

A group of independent experts recently looked into the joint NASA and ESA mission to bring Mars samples back to Earth. The report discusses possible cost overruns and possible schedule delays. Nevertheless, the game is worth the candle. Analyzing Martian rocks taken directly on site is one of the

ESA has just officially adopted its long-awaited Ariel mission, which aims to probe the atmosphere of a thousand exoplanets. The launch is scheduled for 2029 from Guyana. To date, there are more than 4,000 exoplanets in our cosmic address book. What astronomers would like to do now is to study some

Already weakened for several years, two successive accidents that occurred this year finally sealed the fate of the structure. Built on top of a hill in Puerto Rico, the Arecibo radio telescope will soon be dismantled. Since its commissioning in 1963, the observatory has faced several threats. The

The company Rocket Lab has just reached a major milestone in its history by successfully recovering the first stage of its Electron rocket. The booster will be repatriated to a factory to be analyzed. Rocket Lab in the footsteps of SpaceX Since 2015, SpaceX has been revolutionizing the aerospace ma

In their latest work, US geologists have recreated the soil of the planet Mars in order to work out the possibilities of growing plants there. The ultimate goal is to find a way to make agriculture possible on the red planet. Developing agriculture on Mars When we talk about Mars colonization, one

The start-up ThrustMe was recently responsible for a world first. This company sent its first electric motor into space, the purpose of which is to propel mini-satellites. However, there is nothing conventional about this engine since it uses iodine instead of xenon. Unprecedented technology As exp

In a few years, space tourism should become a reality on the Moon or Mars, in particular thanks to suborbital flights. In order to organize these trips, spaceports will be essential. However, Japan wants to design one next year. Asias space tourism hub By 2050, many spaceports should be present on

A team of astronomers proposes to build a huge liquid mirror telescope directly on the Moon. The goal:to observe the very first stars in the Universe. Population III stars are the first stars in the Universe, formed a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. At the time, these objects consiste

For sixteen long years, the Blue Ring Nebula baffled astronomers trying to piece together its origin story. The mystery is finally solved. The structure would be the result of the fusion of two stars produced only thousands of years ago. The mystery of the blue ring The Blue Ring Nebula was first s